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Lake, Ted.” Job Corps as of today”. Arizona Silver Belt, Arizona Silver Belt, Jan. 19th. 2011, E-Edition and Print., Jan. 30th. 2011.

David Rossenwasser and Jill Stephen. Writing Analytically. Place of Publication unknown: Cengage Learning, Jan 2008. Print and PDF.


Ted Lake states that currently the fully federally funded Job Corps program is working with over 100,000 students at 124 centers around the nation. Most of these centers are being operated by private companies. Only a few are operated by the governments. Those who wish to enroll in the program must meet its eligibility standards consisting of Age, income, and life style standards.

While most of the article is general information about the current state and enrollment of the Job Corps program, Mr. Lake also makes an odd connection. He states that the Utah –based Management and Training Corporation is the labor department’s most respected contractor who operates 20 centers based in various states, and also mentions that this same company operates around 20 private correctional prisons.

While applying a “Lens” to a reading one should look for what strikes the reader as “interesting or strange” another good option is to infer questions about the implicit meanings that the author of a piece has given. (Rossenwasser) Using these tools and ideas a question arises. Why mention correctional prisons being operated by the same company? Why would Mr. Lake make a correlation with Job Corps and prison? While on the surface this article is completely informational and somewhat dry reading. Yet that one spot peaks curiosity. How do people normally view the program Job Corps? Are these individuals who are criminals? What kind of negative associations do people in the community give to this program that isn’t being explicitly mentioned in the press? Research into other articles that explicitly linked prisoners and Job Corps has yielded surprisingly little. Yet equally surprising so has many positive out-looking articles. Whether or not the community of Idaho links Prison and Job Corps together is unknown. Yet the idea of looking into the communities honest viewpoint bears merit.

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Flores-Lagunes, Alfonso; Arturo Gonzalez and Todd Nuemann. "Learning But Not Earning? The Impact of Job Corps Training on Hispanic Youth." Economy Inquiry 48.3 (2010): 651-667. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 30 Jan. 2011. In this article Flores-Lagunes, Gonzalez, and Nuemann discuss how Local Labor Market Unemployment Rate (LUR) effect African-Americans and Hispanics more than anyone else. They believe that Job Corps (JC) helps "shield" the rest due to the fact that the LUR does not effect them as much. This article is split into five sections, each analyzing a different topic. The topics range from analyzing the JC program as a whole, to post treatment after they leave the program, and how subgroups effect gaining employment. Each section provides you with tables or graphs with statistics from, Intention to Treat (ITT) and Local Average Treatment Effect (LATE).

I can see and understand where these authors are coming from, these young adults work just as hard as the others do but do not get the same acknowledgement. The authors point out that these students all have a certain criteria they have to fit, " 16-24 yrs of age, residence in a disruptive environment, not on parole, [and] be a high school dropout or in need of additional training", which most Hispanics fit, yet they do not achieve all that they need. Flores-Lagunes and Gonzalez feel that they need to get this out since they both work in fields that deal with economy. Flores-Lagunes is an Assistant Professor for the Food and Resource Economics Department for the University of Florida, and Gonzalez is a Financial Economist for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.

There are some parts where I feel this article is extremely bias. Yes I understand that the young Hispanics try very hard and do not always get as far as the others. However this economy is not at its best to be looking for jobs. People these days just can't walk in somewhere and expect to get a job because they have the right education to work there, we need to fight for it as well, and not give up just because we've heard "No" a few times. In conclusion, if I were able to ask them some questions a couple would be, "Did they take in to consideration the statistics for other races besides Hispanic and African-American?", and "Did they find any recent statistics besides the ones from 2007?".

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Cech, Scott J. "Armed With a GED." Education Week, 28, 15, pp. 20-23, Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 30 Jan. 2011.

This article is about the Army Preparatory School (APS) in Fort Jackson that helps young adults get their GED. Scott Cech talks about the style that this program is using and also talks to people in the program to get a better idea of how the whole system works. Cech emphasizes the freedom that the teachers have in the curriculum taught at APS. Part of Cech's article is the views from other teachers about military teaching style brought into public schools and how they would benefit or ruin the normal curriculum taught in public schools. Hugh B. Price, who is not connected to the APS program but is an expert on military-style education has one of the first comments in the article basically saying that the militaries style of education has a lot of potential if adopted into public school systems.

The whole article sounds very one sided by all the pros of the APS program and how the army benefits from it. When there was the one comment from a teacher who disapproved of how the APS wanted to motivate young adults she brought up different ways to encourage them to carry on with their education and support them through it but the author instead of saying that the program helps young adults are motivated in different aspects he simply throws in a comment from one of the young adults who has already gone through the APS program.

I think the article sounds very one sided in support of military-styled education. Even though I do like the idea of having stricter rules and curriculum I feel that this article could have contained more information about the actual methods used by APS instead of a bunch of comments on why people liked it.

Some questions that I have about this article is what types of methods did the Army Preparatory School use for discipline? What would be considered "overtlly military?" What types of methods did West Philidelphia High School adopt to improve their school?

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